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Stefano Cucurachi

Associate professor

Name
Dr. S. Cucurachi
Telephone
+31 71 527 4919
E-mail
s.cucurachi@cml.leidenuniv.nl
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2748-655x

Stefano Cucurachi is an Associate Professor of Industrial Ecology.

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Professional experience and research Interests

Stefano Cucurachi is an Associate Professor of Industrial Ecology. An industrial engineer by training, Stefano shifted his focus from the optimization of supply chains and logistics systems to assessing the sustainability of socio-technical systems. He obtained his PhD at the Faculty of Science of Leiden University in 2014.

After the attainment of his PhD, Stefano worked as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich with prof. Stefanie Hellweg and at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management of the University of California, Santa Barbara, with prof. Sangwon Suh. 
For over a decade, Stefano has been developing methods of quantitative sustainability assessment, with a focus on life cycle assessment (LCA). Stefano has been contributing to methodological developments across all phases of LCA, from inventory and impact assessment methods to uncertainty and sensitivity analyses.
Back to CML since 2017, Stefano has been focusing on the ex-ante and prospective application of LCA to assess emerging technologies at the earliest stages of innovation. In this context, he has been collaborating with technology developers, scientists, and companies at the forefront of innovation to guide the development of emerging technologies and systems towards more sustainable pathways. 

Stefano has been applying LCA to, among others: 
•    TRL-1 disruptive designs
•    Novel designs of solar cells
•    Lightweight recycled components used in the automotive industry
•    Novel circular business models, and novel food technologies.
Stefano has been using such case studies towards the continuous innovation of LCA methods. 

Since 2019, Stefano has been the director of the Master’s of Science of Industrial Ecology, a joint program of Leiden University and Delft University of Technology. Stefano is a core lecturer in the program and has a passion for university education and is constantly looking for new ways to innovate education on sustainability. His goal is to inspire and train a new generation of experts to effectively address global challenges and wicked problems.

Associate professor

  • Science
  • Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden
  • CML/Industriele Ecologie

Work address

Van Steenis
Einsteinweg 2
2333 CC Leiden
Room number A3.17

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